For the day someone else has to be you.
Putting it in order now is quiet work. The cost of leaving it scattered is paid later, by someone else.
When nothing is written down, a full estate can run to the high tens or low hundreds of hours — much of it spent finding what only you knew.
Bereavement Support Payment is worth up to £9,800 at the higher rate, where the conditions are met — easily overlooked if the details and deadlines aren't to hand. Check current rates at GOV.UK: gov.uk/bereavement-support-payment.
With one record they can open, the people who step in start from a known place — not from a drawer of papers and a list of questions only you could answer.
This guide is free, and it stays free. The Household Continuity Dossier renders your household's own version — your people, your accounts, your wishes — into a maintained record your executor or trusted person will actually reach for, kept current every year.
See The Household Continuity DossierNot sure which one fits? Begin where most people do.
A First Sitting is a guided start you can do at the kitchen table in about ten minutes — the first real entries in a record you own. There is nothing to pay to begin.
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Free guides behind these products
These free briefs are the foundation the paid products personalise. The guides are openly available — the paid products apply them to your specific household.
The Household Continuity Dossier captures access and recovery routes in the portal — so the people who need to reach your accounts can do so without a crisis.
Read the guideThe Household Continuity Dossier prepares an annual intelligence report from your live records — so the review has something to compare against, year on year.
Read the guideThe Household Continuity Dossier documents the LPA authority in P-07 — so the scope, the registration date, and the attorney's contact are in one accessible place.
Read the guideA name starts the search. A route finishes it.
Read the guideThe Household Continuity Dossier prepares this certificate from your own records — the beneficiary register, the asset schedule, and the distribution gates, drawn from the file you keep current.
Read the guideAll guides are available free from the Valoren library — no account required.